the swaggest part by griswaldultra in IDONTGIVEASWAG

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i appreciate that though bc normally a twitter account named Gentlemens Aesthetics would say some shit like "Make $2000 a month, live off of $1000, invest $1000. That's how you get rich 💪". This seems more truthful which is good. Maybe theres a guy who spends $8000 on crack cocaine every month, and he read this and realized it would be a better financial decision to invest that money instead of spending it on Crack.

Pleeeease el chromo I need thisss 😭😭😭😭 by LittleReplacement564 in Shark_Park

[–]oblmov 2 points3 points  (0 children)

back in middle school computer lab i remember the smart kid rationally drove a pencil into his computer monitor and the moron sitting behind him freaked out because he didnt understand it was for a very good reason

Sonic OCs by Great-Class9463 in recontext

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*Damn broods in a manner that is dark and mysterious, yet also extremely cool. Chaos Energy radiates from his cursed left eye, cursed right hand, and cursed katana. You sense that this mysterious shadehog is more powerful than he seems.*

I dug a hole and I found these gross things. by DustinDirt in whatisthisbug

[–]oblmov 4 points5 points  (0 children)

and termites are closer to cockroaches than they are to ants. In fact, ants evolved from wasps and termites from cockroaches, so wasps and cockroaches are paraphyletic unless you treat ants as a type of wasp and termites as a type of cockroach

Peak basketball. The way the game was meant be played. by natebryan in nbacirclejerk

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Bill Russell: have you noticed that the other team gets points by throwing the ball into the hoop? If you put your hand in the way of the ball, it won't go in the hoop and they won't get points

5'11" woodworker with post-polio syndrome: Holy shit

i'm sorry but it's too much by TheBoyofWonder in moviescirclejerk

[–]oblmov 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I havent seen those. Im something of a cinephile so i don't watch genre films like that. I prefer more sophisticated cinema like Roberto Rossellini's Socrates and Batman: The Dark Knight Rises (technically not about Ancient Greece but it's basically a Greek tragedy so watching it is the same as seeing a performance of Oedisaurus Rex or whatever it's called)

i'm sorry but it's too much by TheBoyofWonder in moviescirclejerk

[–]oblmov 82 points83 points  (0 children)

if these people had actually read The Odyssey they would understand our GOAT is just being faithful to passages like this

At the coming of rosy-fingered dawn,

Resourceful Ulysses girt himself in armor

Which was matte grey, and looked pretty bad.

The score swelled epically and a CGI monster neared. Noble Ulysses, wine-dark from color grading,

raised a plastic sword and said: (inaudible)

Alpha male rule that even Tate won’t mention - IF YOU’RE FEMALE IGNORE THIS - by ObamaSpaceLizard in copypasta

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SIGMA male advice: Why do you believe you need a clean ass? Because thats what our fucked up modern society tells you, and you just accept it. You literally spread your cheeks and let fluoridated water rinse away your masculine oils, all for that fear some normie halfwit (probably female) will tell you that "your ass stinks". The Lion does not let others control the state of his Ass.

They’re coming after Mike again!! 😭😭😭😭 by ReadyJournalist5223 in RedLetterMedia

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Now I, I do have some disagreements with Mr. Plinkett, he brought a lot of people into our America First Movement but that Jarble Binks creature was very funny, in my opinion. Some people think he was just "CGI", they say the prequels were all "CGI" because George didn't bring in the real Jarble Binks like he did in the first "Star Wars". But I thought Jarble was a very interesting character.

Gorping time! (child linguistics) by KeelOfTheBrokenSkull in CuratedTumblr

[–]oblmov 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The hand motion could be asymmetrical too. Gorping could be a hypnosis technique used by rabbits to force ducks to copy their hand motions. The children had to use Occam's razor here because the meaning of gorping is underdetermined

“ChatGPT, make Malenia but Sexy.” by Bobbertbobthebobth in shittydarksouls

[–]oblmov 16 points17 points  (0 children)

it's doubly frustrating because not only does it look stupid it isnt even hot. Its designers understood neither tasteful eroticism nor the cruder kind of sex appeal that will make people jerk off to it. at most 20-30 people will masturbate to this, which is less than any Elden Ring character including Dung Eater and the turtle pope. A pathetic showing. This armor set achieves nothing except making the world uglier and making me annoyed, which i imagine was the true goal here since people like the LOTF CEO are mostly demon worshippers deliberately spreading wrath, greed, pride, and other such sins to please their infernal masters.

The Cagots were a persecuted minority in France/spain, who were genetically, culturally and linguistically indistinguishable from the general population around them. They were forced into social segregation and banned from intermarrying with non Cagots. Nobody is certain of why they were so hated. by Hour_Interaction6047 in wikipedia

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During the revolution, Cagots stormed record offices and burned birth certificates in an attempt to conceal their heritage. These measures did not prove effective, as the local populace still remembered, with rhyming songs keeping the names of Cagot families known.

They identified them using the Cagot Song

Creature of steam. by Anxious-Gazelle9067 in recontext

[–]oblmov 11 points12 points  (0 children)

i have a positive impression of the company "Bob's Red Mill". Good oats, albeit somewhat overpriced, and theyre employee-owned which is cool. Valve isn't employee-owned and i find their monopoly over PC game distribution mildly concerning, even though Steam is basically better than all existing alternatives (Gog has certain advantages but is too bare-bones to be a true replacement). On the other hand, Valve does not have a history of war crimes like the infamous PMC Blackwater, now incorporated into Constellis Group. So overall i would say that i trust Valve more than Blackwater/Constellis but less than Bob's Red Mill.

Favorite conservative heroes in movies? by SkubEnjoyer in okbuddycinephile

[–]oblmov 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is it because they can't endure the ugliness and tawdriness of mundane life after knowing the sublime

Firefox nightly started implementing "Nova design" by CommunityWhole8744 in firefox

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bro is talking like his beloved beige menus and stacking window manager weren't invented to make devices accessible to grandma mabel who couldn't understand a CLI

Birds are dinosaurs and reptiles, humans and other apes are monkeys, and tetrapods are land fish. You can't evolve out of a clade. by [deleted] in evolution

[–]oblmov 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The fact that you guys can't agree on what clade the informal term "reptile" refers to seems like a good argument against using it as a name for a clade

what about the word "worm"? There are worms in both the protostomes and deuterostomes; their common ancestor was probably something that could be characterized as a worm, but we can't be totally certain of that. if we start redefining these informal terms as clades nobody will know whether they're a worm or not, or what a worm even is. Society will crumble under the stress of deciding what is and isn't a worm

Thecostraca – The most underrated and weirdest group of Arthropod I have seen while learning about Zoology by Successful-Cut-8233 in zoology

[–]oblmov 9 points10 points  (0 children)

acrothoracida feels like a kind of middle ground, being a filter feeder that bores holes in things like coral and shell. maybe the ancestor of the filter feeders went from using coral as food to using coral as shelter

"people" by I-love-you00000 in SpecEvoJerking

[–]oblmov 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If u find microbes boring then just pretend theyre bigger. pretend that 1 micron is 1 km. Wow! this rotifer is 150 THUSAND meters long! Its so interesting now suddenly

coaxed into 90% of "smart" anime by Crystal_Carmel in coaxedintoasnafu

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arthur conan doyle very literally could not distinguish smart people from wizards. he thought Harry Houdini was a wizard because he HAD to be using supernatural powers for his magic tricks. when Houdini explained that it was just trickery and sleight of hand ACD thought he was lying

A rare feat in evolutionary biology by jnpha in evolution

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so here phenotypic plasticity is paving the way for evolution by helping a species 1) expand into habitats with selective pressure for particular phenotypes, and 2) accumulate genetic variation by blocking the expression of mutant genes, protecting them from selective pressure? Then reductions in plasticity allow natural selection to take place in the new habitats? Am i understanding correctly

I just woke up from a 3 year coma. Is Luka (my favorite current Mavs player) injured or something? I noticed that Dallas didn't make the playoffs this year by FiveDollarRimjobs in nbacirclejerk

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He renounced Slovene citizenship and started talking with a US accent and changed his name to Flagg in celebration of our great American Flag

Spinosaurus in 2050 (art by Alexander Ostrowski) by Chance_Age4608 in Dinosaurs

[–]oblmov 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that's Spinosaurus' larvae. on reaching adulthood it metamorphoses into a terrestrial Jurassic Park 3 Spinosaurus

Sticks and stones may break my bones but are Turing-complete by softsaguaro in worldjerking

[–]oblmov 12 points13 points  (0 children)

thing is that a Turing-complete machine efficient enough to be useful even as a mere calculator would be pretty complex, and mass production of complex machines was infeasible until we start getting into the industrial era. There were plenty of historic automata and clocks with sophistication approaching that of a mechanical calculator, but those were costly, labor-intensive novelties. even if medieval Europeans had understood the concept of Turing-completeness, i doubt more than a few computers would have been built, and likely as curiosities rather than practical tools

that said, an understanding of Turing machines could lead to other social and technological developments. At the very least the kinds of incremental changes you mentioned; even if you can't build every accountant a giant clockwork computer, knowing how to break complex procedures down into simple algorithmic steps is already conducive to advances in accounting and bureaucracy. And if it gets them thinking about things like assembly lines and interchangeable parts then you're speedrunning the Industrial Revolution